ms office 2007 convert trial into full version

Ways to Convert the Trial into Full Version

You can convert from the trial software to a full-version either before or after your trial period ends.

Before the trial period ends

You will start receiving expiration reminder messages indicating the date when the trial will expire. At this point, you can convert to the full product in two ways:

1. In any of the expiration reminder messages, click Convert, and then follow the steps in the conversion process, below.

2. At any time during the trial period (or even after the trial has expired), you can open any of the Microsoft Office System products, and in the Help menu: click Activate your software.

After the trial period expires

The software goes into reduced functionality mode. Some of the limitations of reduced functionality mode include the following:
- You can not create any new files.
- You can view existing files, but you can not modify them.
- You can print files, but you can not save them.

How to Convert Microsoft Office 2007 to Full Version

This requires that Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed without the product key in the first place.

Once Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed with no product key, proceed as follows:
1. In Windows Explorer, browse to the following folder:

C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedOFFICE12Office Setup ControllerProof.en

2. Right click on Proof.XML file, select Open With in the right click menu.

3. In the Open With window, select Notepad to be used to open the XML file.
[Note: In Windows Vista, if you can’t see the Notepad option, simply double click the “Other Programs” to unhide it.]

4. Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines:

<feature id="SetupXmlFiles" cost=""><optionref id="”AlwaysInstalled”/"></feature>

5. Change the AlwaysInsalled to neverInstalled so that the line looks like following:

<optionref id="neverInstalled">

6. Save the Proof.xml file.

7. You can now launch Microsoft Office 2007 application such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and etc without prompting for activation.

Note: Information via mydigitallife, we haven't tested it ourselves. It is for informational purposes only and not intended to be used